Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device

Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World Human Verification Project co-founded by OpenAI CEO SAM Altman, unveiled a mobile device designed on Wednesday to help people determine the difference between a person and an AI agent.

Rich Heely, Tools for Humanity’s Chief Device Officer and a former Apple director, the ORB Mini device debuted during his “Atlind” event in San Francisco. The device looks like a smartphone and has two large sensors on the front to scan the eyeballs of users.

World, a Web3 project started by Altman and Alex Blania, which was previously known as Worldcoin, is based on the idea that it will ultimately be impossible to distinguish people from AI agents on the internet. To tackle this, the world wants to create digital “proof of human” tools; These announcements are part of its efforts to register millions of people.

After scanning your eyeball with one of his silver metal orbs – or now, one of his orb -mini – the world will give you a unique identification on the blockchain to verify that you are a person.

The Orb Mini, a reference to the larger ORB devices of the company, has the known form of a smartphone and is designed to be portable, told a tools for the human spokesperson in a briefing to WAN. Thomas Meyerhoff, a former Apple designer, helped with the design of the Orb Mini, according to people who are familiar with the new product.

The main objective of the ORB Mini is to verify more people, not necessarily to use apps, call or send text messages. However, the spokesperson said that it is unclear what the ultimate functionality of the device would be.

After the event, Blania told WAN that the ORB Mini is ultimately to make a mobile-point-of-sale device and perhaps even sell the sensor technology to equipment manufacturers.

Tools for Humanity will also launch its world network in the US on Thursday and Storefronts will open in Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco. The stores, which already has the world in other countries, are designed for people to come in and to have their eyeballs scanned by one of the company’s orbs.

The world project claims that 26 million people have registered and 12 million people have been verified around the world. Nowadays the company is a greater presence in Latin -America, South America and Asia -but Wednesday’s announcement is intended to grow the project in the US

Although the company was light on details about its ORB Mini, the device seems to be an attempt to spread its verification devices wider. Although the objectives of the world have shifted over the years, the bulb seems to be the core of his mission.

An important question about swirls in the world is whether it will ever work with Sam Altman’s other company, OpenAI. It is unclear whether the ORB MINI AI has functions, or whether it is related to the AI ​​device that is reportedly works.